This descriptive qualitative case study focused on the assessment of the teaching of Calculus at senior secondary school level in Chinsali district of Zambia. The study was motivated by the Zambian School certificate candidates’ poor performance in questions based on the newly introduced topic of...
Download PDF ↓The Zambian curriculum has been objective based since independence until the year 2013 when it was revised to Outcome Based Education (OBE) under the theme “Putting theory into practice.” Therefore, an OBE curriculum aims to produce a learner who can showcase skills, values and competencies in...
Since the Outcomes-Based Mathematics Teacher Education Syllabus (OBMTES) was introduced at Junior Secondary Teachers‘ Diploma (JSTD) level in 2016 not much is known regarding how it is being implemented, a scenario which would make it problematic to attribute continued poor competence in...
Download PDF ↓The purpose of this study was to explore the mathematical knowledge that teachers had for teaching Geometrical transformations in selected secondary schools in Lusaka District. The study was guided by three (3) research questions namely; what iv knowledge of geometrical transformations do the...
Download PDF ↓Mathematics plays a vital role in personal, national and global development. Despite its great importance to national development, the Zambia Grade 12 National Examination results reports low percentage passes in mathematics. The topics that continuously posed a challenge in Grade 12 Ordinary...
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